The Memetic Desire of College Students

I think there's a reactionary impulse right now. I don't really know where it ends with some of the language games and some of the increasingly bizarre things that we're seeing. We've not yet seen the response to cancel culture, at least not in a heavy way. If you just, you talk about things that aren't shocking, nobody notices. There's always an element of escalation. In order to stand out, you have to have this different and wacky idea.

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